Oath
Deana Lawson
Contemporary Art
Shooting primarily in the United States and the Caribbean, Deana Lawson is inspired by the expression and aesthetics of black cultures worldwide. Using a large-format camera, and working across a variety of photographic traditions—including portraiture, staged scenes, found or appropriated imagery, and vernacular photography such as family albums—she addresses themes of the body, sensuality, community, and spirituality, among others. Lawson’s photographs can be seen as psychological portraits of black subjects in an extended, mythological diasporic family.
MEDIUM
Pigment print
DATES
2013
DIMENSIONS
40 x 50 in. (101.6 x 127 cm)
frame: 41 x 51 in. (104.1 x 129.5 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed verso
COLLECTIONS
Contemporary Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
2015.6.1
CREDIT LINE
William K. Jacobs, Jr. Fund
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Deana Lawson (American, born 1979). Oath, 2013. Pigment print, 40 x 50 in. (101.6 x 127 cm). Brooklyn Museum, William K. Jacobs, Jr. Fund, 2015.6.1. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Image courtesy of the artist, CUR.2015.6.1_Lawson_photograph.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, CUR.2015.6.1_Lawson_photograph.jpg. Image courtesy of the artist
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RIGHTS STATEMENT
©Deana Lawson
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